India’s research and manufacturing will be critical to fighting Covid-19, especially to making vaccines on a large scale, billionaire philanthropist Bill Gates said on Monday. Addressing the 2020 Grand Challenges Annual Meeting, Gates delved into difficulties in vaccine development and Covid-19 diagnosis. The American business mogul called India “very inspiring” …
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By: Express Web Desk | New Delhi | October 19, 2020 4:31:25 pm Anika Chebrolu decided to compete in the Young Scientist Challenge after battling a serious influenza infection last year. (Youtube / Anika Chebrolu) As the entire world eagerly awaits a vaccine that offers protection against the new coronavirus, …
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The United States, which has suffered the worst death toll with more than 218,000 deaths, on Friday revealed a record deficit of $ 3.1 trillion in the fiscal year that ended September 30. He also announced that the number of cases had exceeded eight million, while the global daily infections …
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India can receive a COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021, revealed Dr. Suresh Jadhav, executive director of the Serum Institute of India. “India can receive COVID-19 vaccine by March 2021 as long as regulators notify processes quickly as various manufacturers are working on it,” Dr Jadhav said at the India Vaccine …
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Russia is the first country to grant regulatory approval for a new coronavirus vaccine. Moscow: The Russian Direct Investment Fund (RDIF) and Dr Reddy’s Laboratories Ltd have received renewed approval to conduct late-stage clinical trials in India of the Russian COVID-19 vaccine, the sovereign wealth fund said on Saturday. The …
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After rejecting the first proposal, India’s General Drug Controller finally allowed Dr. Reddy’s to conduct a phase 2/3 human clinical trial of Sputnik V, the Covid-19 vaccine that makes Russia the first country in develop a vaccine. “This will be a multicentre, randomized controlled study, including a safety and immunogenicity …
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The World Health Organization (WHO) said on Friday that it had had a very good dialogue with the developers of a second Russian candidate vaccine against COVID-19. “We can only have a position on a vaccine when we see the results of phase III clinical trials,” said WHO chief scientist …
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The schedule now allows for a possible U.S. authorization of a coronavirus vaccine this year. Pfizer Inc said on Friday that it could apply for authorization of the COVID-19 vaccine it is developing with German partner BioNTech in late November, so it is unlikely that a vaccine will be available …
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Pfizer Inc said Friday that it could request emergency use of its coronavirus vaccine as soon as a safety milestone is reached in November. The drugmaker should have enough data from its late-stage trial to know if its coronavirus vaccine works for this month, CEO Albert Bourla wrote in an …
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Amid rumor to develop a possible Covid-19 vaccine for distribution in India, Union Health Minister Harsh Vardhan said on Thursday that India is expected to have a COVID-19 vaccine in a few months and that the country should be in the process of delivering it. to people in the next …
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